NY’s Clamp Gallery is the final storp in artist AdeY’s Uncensored World Tour which has included stops in London (The Little Black Gallery) and also Los Angeles (Galerie XII), Stockholm (Fotografiska), and Falsterbo, Sweden (Falsterbo Photo Art Museum)
Still no one really know who AdeY is beyond the fact he is a British/Swedish artist. We know that he left a career as professional, ad that is somewhat evident in the photographs which combine photography, choreography, and performance.
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“Ibegan taking photographs when I worked as a professional dancer and felt the need to erase what I had done before to be taken seriously. People doubt you when you change art forms. I also do not want people to focus on my background but rather my body of work,” says AdeY.
The forms of the exhibition Uncensored began to take shape in 2015–2016, when AdeY, during a period of intense travel, was struck by the sexualization of bodies in advertising images. Then and there, a desire was awoken to show the body just as “only” a body, without reducing it into a sexualized symbol. The images in the exhibit are playful and experimental, with bodies often depicted in choreographed poses or formations. The viewer is given the right to interpret the images, which is an important part of AdeY’s artistry.
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”We are happy to continue to support emerging artists like AdeY, whose photographs of bodies illustrate emotions of strength, solitude and vulnerability. AdeY is an artist with incredible potential and whose images continually challenge the viewer,” says Brian Clamp of CLAMP.
May 16 – May 25, 2024 Opening reception: Thursday, May 16, 2024 6 – 8 PM Brian Paul Clamp of CLAMP and Ghislain Pascal of the Little Black Gallery are pleased to present “Uncensored,” an exhibition of photographs by AdeY. 247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor New York, NY 10001
